A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our EraThorndike, Lynn
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A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era
Thorndike, Lynn
Magic -- History; Science -- History
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BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Foreword.
Chapter 2. Pliny’s Natural History.
I. Its place in the history of science.
II. Its experimental tendency.
III. Pliny’s account of magic.
IV. The science of the _Magi_.
V. Pliny’s magical science.
” 3. Seneca and Ptolemy: Natural Divination and Astrology.
” 4. Galen.
I. The man and his times.
II. His medicine and experimental science.
III. His attitude toward magic.
” 5. Ancient Applied Science and Magic.
” 6. Plutarch’s Essays.
” 7. Apuleius of Madaura.
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